SNIFFING

Holy shit.

I’d honestly expected the wolves to consider me a failure with how badly I’d been hurt. This was… It was something else entirely.

“That doesn’t mean wolves from the outlying packs in Fire and Fluorite won’t come sniffing around eventually, but the position is yours if you still want to stay here.” Jack smiled proudly. “You’ve earned it.”

I snorted very un-queen-like. “Of course, I still fucking want it.”

Sammy gasped. “Language, Elena.”

His response had me laughing until my sides ached, and I had to lean into Atlas to keep upright.

This was really happening.

I was home, and I had a family, and I was going to rule an entire fucking House.

As hard as some of that was to grasp, I couldn’t have been happier in that moment.

“You told her without us?” Amy gaped with her fists on her hips. She and Mark were standing behind Jack, and I hadn’t even seen them approach.

Sammy flinched. “Sorry.”

Atlas kissed the top of my head. “And we wouldn’t have come together without you.”

Even wit